Dr Karen Baston
- Research Associate: Books and Borrowing (English Literature)
Publications
2021
Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2021) Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: enlightenment systems and digital reconfigurations. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54(4), pp. 935-955. (doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0098)
2020
Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2020) Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow. [Website]
2018
Baston, K. (2018) A family of readers in eighteenth-century Scotland: the Areskines of Alva and their books. In: Boran, E. (ed.) Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850. Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 188-205. ISBN 9781846827372
2017
Baston, K. and Gardham, J. (2017) William Hunter's Library: a Transcription of the Early Catalogues: Transcription of Museum Records 1-3, Trustees Catalogues of Printed Books. Catalogue. University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
2016
Baston, K. (2016) Two Eighteenth-Century Scottish Lawyers' Libraries: Lord Tinwald, Lord Alva, and Their Book Collections. Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850, Dublin, Ireland, 25 Nov 2016. (Unpublished)
Baston, K. (2016) Charles Areskine's Library: Scottish Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment. Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World (48). Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004315372 (doi: 10.1163/9789004315389)
Baston, K. (2016) Nineteenth century nimbys: Henry Raeburn versus the Stockbridge steam engine. In: The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. Old Edinburgh Club: Edinburgh, pp. 27-36. ISBN 9780993398711
2015
Baston, K. G. (2015) Humanist books and lawyers’ libraries in early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva's library. In: Du Plessis, P. J. and Cairns, J. W. (eds.) Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims: Petere Fontes? Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 348-376. ISBN 9781474408851
Baston, K. G. and Cairns, J. W. (2015) An elegant legal education: the studies of Charles Binning, a Scottish pupil of Cornelis van Eck. Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis: Legal History Review, 83(1-2), pp. 179-201. (doi: 10.1163/15718190-08312p09)
Baston, K. (2015) Signet Library Session Papers Index Digitised. [Website]
2014
Baston, K. (2014) The Universal Short Title Catalogue Database. [Website]
2013
Baston, K. (2013) Scottish Legal History Group Conference, 2013. [Website]
Baston, K. (2013) Natural Law in Scotland, 1625-1850: Part of Natural Law, 1625-1850: An International Research Network. [Website]
Baston, K. (2013) The British Legal History Conference, Glasgow, 10-13 July 2013. [Website]
Baston, K. (2013) Understanding the Scottish Practicks. [Website]
Baston, K. (2013) "Blessed among my Kind": William Roughead, Poet. Signet Magazine(4), pp. 26-28.
Baston, K. (2013) Book Review: John Finlay, The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 (EUP, 2012). Eighteenth-Century Scotland(27), pp. 32-33. [Book Review]
2012
Baston, K. and Metzger, E. (Eds.) (2012) The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works. Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956642318
Baston, K. (2012) Her Majesty's Signet. Signet Magazine(3), pp. 22-23.
Baston, K. (2012) Oscar Slater: presumed guilty. Signet Magazine(2), pp. 13-14.
Baston, K. (2012) Oscar Slater: What Happened... Signet Magazine(3), pp. 28-29.
Baston, K. (2012) William Roughead's friends. Signet Magazine(3), pp. 26-27.
Baston, K. and Pirrie, R. (2012) Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose. Signet Magazine(2), pp. 30-31.
2011
Baston, K. (2011) Roman Law Group Meeting, University of Edinburgh. [Website]
Baston, K. (2011) Louisiana: The Legal History of Europe in a Single US State. [Website]
Baston, K. (2011) Library gems. Signet Magazine, p. 19.
2004
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Bell, John (1763–1820). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/2013)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Goldsmith, Francis (1613–1655). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/10921)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Goodsir, John (1814–1867). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/10983)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Manby, Peter (d. 1697). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/17920)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Reynolds, John (b. c.1588, d. after 1655). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/23422)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Sparrow, John (1615–1670). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/26087)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Vaughan, John, third earl of Carbery (bap. 1639, d. 1713). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/28135)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Ward, Nathaniel (1578–1652). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/28700)
Articles
Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2021) Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: enlightenment systems and digital reconfigurations. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54(4), pp. 935-955. (doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0098)
Baston, K. G. and Cairns, J. W. (2015) An elegant legal education: the studies of Charles Binning, a Scottish pupil of Cornelis van Eck. Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis: Legal History Review, 83(1-2), pp. 179-201. (doi: 10.1163/15718190-08312p09)
Baston, K. (2013) "Blessed among my Kind": William Roughead, Poet. Signet Magazine(4), pp. 26-28.
Baston, K. (2012) Her Majesty's Signet. Signet Magazine(3), pp. 22-23.
Baston, K. (2012) Oscar Slater: presumed guilty. Signet Magazine(2), pp. 13-14.
Baston, K. (2012) Oscar Slater: What Happened... Signet Magazine(3), pp. 28-29.
Baston, K. (2012) William Roughead's friends. Signet Magazine(3), pp. 26-27.
Baston, K. and Pirrie, R. (2012) Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose. Signet Magazine(2), pp. 30-31.
Baston, K. (2011) Library gems. Signet Magazine, p. 19.
Books
Baston, K. (2016) Charles Areskine's Library: Scottish Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment. Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World (48). Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004315372 (doi: 10.1163/9789004315389)
Book Sections
Baston, K. (2018) A family of readers in eighteenth-century Scotland: the Areskines of Alva and their books. In: Boran, E. (ed.) Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850. Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 188-205. ISBN 9781846827372
Baston, K. (2016) Nineteenth century nimbys: Henry Raeburn versus the Stockbridge steam engine. In: The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. Old Edinburgh Club: Edinburgh, pp. 27-36. ISBN 9780993398711
Baston, K. G. (2015) Humanist books and lawyers’ libraries in early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva's library. In: Du Plessis, P. J. and Cairns, J. W. (eds.) Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims: Petere Fontes? Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 348-376. ISBN 9781474408851
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Bell, John (1763–1820). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/2013)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Goldsmith, Francis (1613–1655). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/10921)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Goodsir, John (1814–1867). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/10983)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Manby, Peter (d. 1697). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/17920)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Reynolds, John (b. c.1588, d. after 1655). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/23422)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Sparrow, John (1615–1670). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/26087)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Vaughan, John, third earl of Carbery (bap. 1639, d. 1713). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/28135)
Grudzien Baston, K. (2004) Ward, Nathaniel (1578–1652). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198614128 (doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/28700)
Book Reviews
Baston, K. (2013) Book Review: John Finlay, The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 (EUP, 2012). Eighteenth-Century Scotland(27), pp. 32-33. [Book Review]
Edited Books
Baston, K. and Metzger, E. (Eds.) (2012) The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works. Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956642318
Research Reports or Papers
Baston, K. and Gardham, J. (2017) William Hunter's Library: a Transcription of the Early Catalogues: Transcription of Museum Records 1-3, Trustees Catalogues of Printed Books. Catalogue. University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
Conference or Workshop Item
Baston, K. (2016) Two Eighteenth-Century Scottish Lawyers' Libraries: Lord Tinwald, Lord Alva, and Their Book Collections. Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850, Dublin, Ireland, 25 Nov 2016. (Unpublished)
Website
Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2020) Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow. [Website]
Baston, K. (2015) Signet Library Session Papers Index Digitised. [Website]
Baston, K. (2014) The Universal Short Title Catalogue Database. [Website]
Baston, K. (2013) Scottish Legal History Group Conference, 2013. [Website]
Baston, K. (2013) Natural Law in Scotland, 1625-1850: Part of Natural Law, 1625-1850: An International Research Network. [Website]
Baston, K. (2013) The British Legal History Conference, Glasgow, 10-13 July 2013. [Website]
Baston, K. (2013) Understanding the Scottish Practicks. [Website]
Baston, K. (2011) Roman Law Group Meeting, University of Edinburgh. [Website]
Baston, K. (2011) Louisiana: The Legal History of Europe in a Single US State. [Website]